Eberhard Arnold Quotes

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

God's delays are not God's denials.

'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

I will work and get ready and perhaps my time will come.

Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She couldn't search, but she did the next best thing: She stayed still.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

While you're waiting, God's working.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly.